Posts from New York

This spring, nArchitects' My Micro NY will go up in Brooklyn's Navy Yard. The city's first micro-apartments, measuring 260 to 360 square feet, are currently being assembled and will be craned into place later this year. The New York Times was on site to catch some of the construction process.

I enjoy peeking into inspiring studios and workspaces as much as I do homes, and this tour is no exception. Speaking as an artist, there is nothing more draining on your creativity than working in a space that doesn't motivate and speak to you! But by the looks of the costumes turned out by the New York City Ballet's costume workshop, these digs are just the opposite.

I moved into a studio apartment in August. It was a very nice space with good fixtures and great floors, BUT small for someone who works from home and needs the space to have clients come in (yoga & massage) as well as a home office to run my graphic design business. Not to mention.. actually live here and feel at home.

Outdoor space is the holy grail of New York real estate: incredibly desirable, incredibly hard to find. The owners of this Tribeca loft already had access to the roof, something that plenty of New Yorkers would kill for, but their architect took things to the next level with an ingenius solution that opens the entire space up to the outdoors.

It's always exciting the first time a new friend invites you to their home. You feel like you've really made it, like you're a part of the inner circle. We're not buddies with Neil Patrick Harris (and his hubs David Burtka), but thanks to this little peek into their Harlem townhouse, courtesy of Architectural Digest, we can almost pretend that NPH is giving us a personal tour.

Opening on March 14, Museum of the Moving Image will host an exhibit dedicated to Mad Men's sets, costumes, and props. It will include a recreation of Don Draper's SC&P office and the Ossining kitchen. Creator Matthew Weiner is giving a talk at the museum on March 20.

As soon as you spot the bathtub right next to the kitchen sink, you'll know this is no ordinary apartment. That's right — this is not, in fact, a picture of a bathroom, as I thought when I first saw it. It's the kitchen of interior designer Mischa Lampert's impossibly serene 300 square foot Soho pad.

New York's High Line has been quite the draw for the world's starchitects. Rem Koolhaas joins Renzo Piano, Zaha Hadid, and more as the latest one to add a building project near the park. Koolhaas' first ground-up building in NYC is planned for West 18th St, but as of yet, no more details are available.

It might be easy to feel a tinge of jealousy entering a 3-bedroom apartment overlooking 5th Avenue in Manhattan, but Amanda's personality will squash that immediately. As someone who makes her living by being hospitable as a Fashionable Hostess, visitors are comfortable and well taken care of in her beautiful abode.

When the last of their kids moved out, Hafeeza and her husband decided to make a big change: they sold their 4,500 square foot house in New Jersey and moved to Manhattan. They were tired of the maintenance a big house requires, and wanted to be close to the city and all it has to offer. After a year in a temporary spot, they found the perfect apartment. The kitchen just needed a little tlc.